Browsing: Igbo Irunmole

Translated to English by the literary icon and Nobel Laureate, Prof. Wole Soyinka in 1968, as ‘Forest of a Thousand Demons’, the novel speaks of the hunter, Akara-Ogun’s perilous, mythical journey through a supernatural forest populated by demons, spirits, gnomes and goons. It blends Yoruba folklore with allegory and moral lessons.